The apexart Outbound residency program relocates individuals who reside in New York City to a foreign country for a period of one month. apexart provides Outbound residents with airfare, an apartment, a cell phone, and a computer with Internet access where available. Just as with the Inbound Residency, Outbound Residents are discouraged from production and are not provided with a studio. Residents are instead encouraged to spend their time exploring, and in conversation with the many individuals who live and work locally, exchanging ideas and taking advantage of the local cultural climate. apexart strives to provide experiences that promote integration and interaction between our residents and the local community. apexart believes that when removed from the often overwhelming concerns of career and production, creativity, understanding and inter-cultural exchange will flourish more vibrantly. Residents are prepared with an itinerary that includes visiting classes outside of their discipline, meeting with individuals from all kinds of backgrounds, and general activities that range from the very touristic to the peripheral. apexart launched this outbound program in 2007 and sent its first residents to Kellerberrin, Australia; Athens, Greece, and to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

We ask residents to record their observations and experiences in blog entries. The blog is intended as an exercise to help the resident reflect on activities while also providing insight on the experience for future residents and others. You can read more about the experiences of past residents at http://apexoutboundresident.blogspot.com/.

recent Outbound Resident Anna Moschovakis
	Anna Moschovakis is a poet, translator, and editor. Her first book, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, was published in 2006 and she has a second book forthcoming in 2010. Recent translations include The Engagement by Georges Simenon and The Possession by Annie Ernaux. She is currently at work on a hybrid text that investigates sites of "failed" social experiments and on a film-poem about paradise. She teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and at the Bard MFA program and is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective, Ugly Duckling Presse. Read more.

Visit our archive to read more about previous Outbound residents.